How about sort/play by Year???

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JethroUK© - 26 May 2008 16:37 GMT

When browsing thru a specific artist (e.g. Genesis 33 albums, 300+ songs)

You can sort/play the music in order of:

A-Z Album title ????
length of song???
bit rate???
size of file???

i've put ??? marks because nobody plays music in order of bit rate (or any
of the other 'orders')

only order i would play an artists music is in order of date/year - and
that's the only method you can't order them in???????????????? -
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Any chance this might be added in future, or have i missed the obvious?

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Swifty - 27 May 2008 08:34 GMT

> Any chance this might be added in future, or have i missed the obvious?

You've missed the un-obvious. If your album shows 1909 (as mine does
currently) then click on the "1909" and you get a list of all songs
composed in 1909. I'm sure it will work for 21st century dates as well. :-)

This is a general principle throughout WMP11 - if you click on things
like year, genre, mood, etc. then you get the corresponding list.

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JethroUK© - 28 May 2008 23:57 GMT

Thanks but I realise you can filter/play any music (Dolly Parton, The Shamen

:o)) by a particular year (1980) - but filtering is not what i'm asking - i

want to sort/play Genesis albums (or Sting collection) in order of
year/release date (i'll never want to play them in order of bitrate -
strangely enough)

From the responses it appears that the very latest windows media player can
only play an artists music in "alphabetical" order <snicker> or in order of
"length" maybe <guffaw> but not in order of release date <ha ha ha ha>

I think it's fair to say M.S. need to take another look at this

P.S. I'm actually going to try playing my Genesis collection in alphabetical
order (being as thats all i'm allowed) - should be interesting - i think -
although it will play "Abacab" 4 times (off 4 different albums) - before it
plays "Afterglow" (again 4 times)

>> Any chance this might be added in future, or have i missed the obvious?
>
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> This is a general principle throughout WMP11 - if you click on things like
> year, genre, mood, etc. then you get the corresponding list.

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Swifty - 29 May 2008 07:24 GMT

> Thanks but I realise you can filter/play any music (Dolly Parton, The
> Shamen :o)) by a particular year (1980) - but filtering is not what i'm
> asking - i want to sort/play Genesis albums (or Sting collection) in
> order of year/release date (i'll never want to play them in order of
> bitrate - strangely enough)

I'm using WMP11

I went into "Artist" and selected Vaughan Williams giving me a list of
the CD's I have.
I clicked the "Album" header and it sorted by year ascending (I think
the list defaults to year descending.
I double-clicked track 1 in String Quartet No. 1 (1908) and I've been
listening to the music in year order ever since. I've just reached his
last major work, Symphony 9 "Antartica" (1958)

I'm sure it will work with new-fangled stuff like Genesis.

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Vincent - 27 May 2008 20:57 GMT

Click on any column and choose sort

> When browsing thru a specific artist (e.g. Genesis 33 albums, 300+ songs)
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> Any chance this might be added in future, or have i missed the obvious?

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Click on any column except "Year" because it doesn't work - If you like to
play music in any other order (order of "bitrate" maybe) i'll buy you a boat

> Click on any column and choose sort
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>> Any chance this might be added in future, or have i missed the obvious?

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